Model Engineer № 4583 - 30 March -12 April 2018
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Название: Model Engineer № 4583 - 30 March -12 April 2018
Жанр: Нет
Автор: Коллектив
Год выпуска: 2018
Формат: PDF
Размер: 11 МВ
ISBN: 413111950410
Язык: Английский
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488 SMOKE RINGS
News, views and comment on
the world of model engineering.
489 SIX INCH OLDSMOBILE
David Tompkins describes his electrically
driven half size Oldsmobile Curved Dash
horseless carriage.
492 THE INQUISITIVE FIDDLER
Mitch Barnes shares some salutary lessons for
those who, like him, have decided to fiddle with
a model on a whim.
495 A LARGE CAPACITY COVENTRY
DIEHEAD ATTACHMENT
David Earnshaw describes an attachment for
fitting a Coventry diehead to a larger lathe.
498 MEN IN SHEDS
James Wells looks back at the post-war
heyday of ‘men in sheds’.
499 FALCOR – A BEGINNER’S
LOCOMOTIVE IN 32mm GAUGE
Martin Ranson presents a design for a simple,
quick build gas-fired 32mm steam locomotive.
503 TALES OF THE
SMEE COLLECTION
Roger Backhouse takes a look at one of
the collection’s more unusual assets –
a perpetual motion machine.
506 CNC FOR BEGINNERS
Peter King’s continuing narrative of
a CNC learner driver; a few lessons
learned during hands-on operations.
Vol. 220 No. 4583 30 March - 12 April 2018
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A Wooden
Traction
Engine
Electric Steam
Carriage
Le Creusot
Steam
Hammer
COVER FEATURE
MEN IN Perpetual Motion
SHEDS
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ON THE COVER...
David Tompkins’s half scale electric Oldsmobile Curved Dash
car, featured in this issue, complete with half scale driver
(photo: David Tompkins).
508 THE ENV AERO ENGINE
Stephen Wessel continues an occasional series
on the construction of an elusive prototype.
511 A SIMPLE BOILER TEST RIG
Tony Bird describes how you can test
your small boiler for minimal cost.
514 BOOK REVIEW
515 THE UNSEEN STUART S50
Russell Franklin explains how being blind did not
prevent him building a Stuart S50 mill engine.
516 EXTENDING THE LIFE
OF MILLING CUTTERS
Peter Russell finds a way of rejuvenating
his end mills without buying expensive kit.
518 LATHES AND MORE
FOR BEGINNERS
Graham Sadler describes how
to create screw threads.
520 TECHNOLOGY SANS
FRONTI&200;RES
Dr. Ron Fitzgerald looks at English and French
locomotive design in the second half of the
nineteenth century.
522 IRON MASTERS
OF LE CREUSOT
Ray Griffins goes to see one of the
largest steam hammers in the world.
526 POSTBAG
527 MINNIE, A WOODEN
TRACTION ENGINE
Earl Hansen explains how he built a working
traction engine entirely from wood.
530 CLUB NEWS
Geoff Theasby compiles the latest from model
engineering clubs around the world.